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Early instruments are much harder to play
So forgive if they do not completely capture the sound we’re used to.
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The Water Music always brinks back a beautiful memory.
I was walking along the towpath of the canal at Wolverhampton, westwards. The first km is a bit grim, but then one goes under a ‘Cathedral of Trees’ stretching right over the canal. Suddenly one is out in the open. Complete silence – just birds. A Canal Boat was approaching me with a radio quietly playing.
As it came closer I could made out that the music was, appropriately, Handel’s Water Music. I imagined that I was on the side of the Thames in 1717 to hear it serenade King George i.
The Water Music always brinks back a beautiful memory.
I was walking along the towpath of the canal at Wolverhampton, westwards. The first km is a bit grim, but then one goes under a ‘Cathedral of Trees’ stretching right over the canal. Suddenly one is out in the open. Complete silence – just birds. A Canal Boat was approaching me with a radio quietly playing.
As it came closer I could made out that the music was, appropriately, Handel’s Water Music. I imagined that I was on the side of the Thames in 1717 to hear it serenade King George i.
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JH: A once in a lifetime thing, DAD.